Underclothing.



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UNITED STATES Patented December 8, 1903.

- PATENT OFFICE.

OEOILIA MARGARET MACKENZIE AND JESSIE EVANGELINE MACKENZIE,

OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

UNDERCLOTHING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 746,349, dated December 8, 1903.

Application filed February 11, 1902. fierial No- 93,601. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, OEOILIA .MARGARET MACKENZIE and JESSIE 'EVANGELINE MAC- KENZIE, spinsters, subjects of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, and residents of 21 Dorset Square, London, N. W., England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Underclothing, (for which we have made application for Letters Patent in Great Britain, No. 24,260, dated November 29, 1901,) of which the following is a specification. r

Our invention relates to improvements in childrens and ladies knickerbockers, combinations, and similar garments, and has for its object to remove the difficulty of the present method of bnttoning and unbuttoning withoutsacrificing the warmth or security of the garment.

Our invention consists in providing an openingin the back seam of the garment-from near the waist to about the center of the fork and in securing to one of the free edges a flap somewhat longer than the opening, the fastened edge of which is cut in a concave curve at its lower end. This concave portion is secured along inside of the frontseam from the fork, so that in the natural hang of the garment the flap will lie in a loop. The flap therefore lies normally in a position closing the opening and requires no fastening of any kind to keep it in place.

Referring to the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure 1 shows in perspective a pair of knickerbockers provided with a Waist gathering strip and flap constructed according to our invention. Fig. 2' shows a separate view of the piece of cloth forming the flap. Fig. 3 shows the loop formed in the natural hang of the garment by the flap when socured along its concave edge to the garment.

Fig. 4 shows a separate view of the lining on a smaller scale than Fig. 2, and Fig. 5 shows the same when opened out ready for attachment.

In carrying our invention into effect according to one modification as applied to a pair of knickerbockers having back and front seams practically on the median line of the garment we leave an opening in theback of the garment along the line of the back seam,

of cloth, as shown in Fig. 2, cut practically straight from a point A to a point marked B near the end 0. From B' to the end Cit curves much more quickly, so that the cut edge A B G is concave outward. If new the flap be secured by its concave edge to the edge of the side Iof the garment from the point A to the point B and secured along the inside of the front seam from the point B to the point 0, then in the natural hang of the garment the flap D will hang with a loop or fullness E in such a way that it tends normally to remain in a position closing the opening from A to B in the back seam of the garment. The flap D is also secured at points F and G to the back of the garment. We further provide at the waist a short inset length of elastic tapeK K, so that one size of garment may be adapted to fit different sizes of waist. We provide an opening fastened by buttons or hooks at one side for convenience in putting off and on.

' We prefer to provide buttons or other fastoners on the inside of the flap D, as shown at H, Fig. 2, so that a removable lining may be applied to the flap. The lining consists Having now described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by-Letand in a position closing the opening, a lin- In witness whereof we have hereunto set ing consisting of two pieces of material each our hands in presence of two witnesses. of a shape corresponding with the flap but CEOILIA MARGARET MACKENZIE. sewed together along the center line of the JESSIE EVANGELINE MACKENZIE. garment and removably secured to the gar- Witnesses:

ment and flap by suitable fastenings as set ALBERT E. PARKER,

forth. FRANCIS J. BIGNELL. 

